March 4, 2007
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. - Purdue completed a three-game sweep of Western Kentucky with a 13-1 win over the Hilltoppers on Sunday afternoon at Nick Denes Field behind a 17-hit offensive attack.
For the weekend, Purdue outscored WKU 35-12 and produced 50 hits, including 24 for extra bases. The Boilermkers batted .403 during the series with 17 doubles, three triples ýand four home runs.
Tony Sedlmeyer picked up his first collegiate win, pitching five innings and allowing one run while striking out six. Allan Donato tossed two innings out of the pen, striking out five of the six batters he retired.
At the plate six Boilermakers had multi-hit games, including three-hit performances by Jordan Comadena and Ryne White. White was 3-for-3 at the plate for the second ýconsecutive game.
Purdue jumped on the board in the first inning with five two-out runs as John Cummins drove home two runs with a single, John Moore doubled in two runs and Alex Jaffee had an RBI with an infield single.
Dan Black scored an unearned run in the third inning to make the score 6-0, and the Boilermakers extended the lead an inning later with two runs off a sacrifice fly by Andy Preston and a RBI base hit by Cummins.
Of Purdue's first eight runs, seven were scored after two outs.
Black's RBI double in the sixth inning made the score 9-1, and a RBI single by Comadena and sacrifice fly by White in the seventh upped the Boilermakers advantage to 11-1. The scoring was capped in the ninth inning when Comadena connected on his second home run of the series, a two-run shot down the left field line that plated Kyle Reesing.
Reesing's triple in the seventh inning extended his hitting streak to six games.
WKU scored its lone run of the game in the fourth inning on a solo home run by Troy Frazier.
Purdue begins its annual Spring Break trip next Friday with the first game of a three-game series against the Auburn Tigers, a team ranked in the top 25. The 10-day trip will also include two games at UAB and three at Samford.